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Hey I solved this problem.

There were two problems:

1) no .htaccess

2) Text editor in Mac

You should have .htaccess in your FTP.

Maybe it’s hidden, but if it is not, you should make one.

You can make it with a simple text editor:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

copy and paste this and save it as .htaccess and upload it your root wp folder.

Another problem for me was that I used the text editor in mac.

Its RTF format put some information in the beginning of the file which is invisible in the text editor.

That caused 500 error problem.

So I made .htacess in Dreamweaver (the memo app in Windows would be OK I guess), and uploaded it, IT WORKED.

I hope this would help for other people.

The reason my FTP did not have .htacess in the first place is beyond me.